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Podcast: Payments on Fire™
Episode: Episode 78 - Identity Verification in Fraud Prevention - Ajay Andrews, Whitepages
Description: Knowing who you're dealing with online is critical if you're taking transaction risk. Digital identity is tough. To address that challenge - and it is a challenge - relying parties, those who take on risk, employ two broad categories of technology: active tools that require user interaction and passive network-based approaches. When the user is required to explicitly provide identifying information, we use the interactive approach. The merchant or lender or website owner asks for user IDs, passwords, perhaps data generated by multi-factor authentication techniques such as biometrics, or one time passwords generated by an app or...